Redistributing ill-defined causes of death - a case study from the BURDEN 2020-project in Germany

• Main Authors: Annelene Wengler (Author), Heike Gruhl (Author), Dietrich Plaß (Author), Janko Leddin (Author), Alexander Rommel (Author), Elena von der Lippe (Author), the BURDEN 2020 study group (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2021-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background The cause of death statistics in Germany include a relatively high share (26% in 2017) of ill-defined deaths (IDD). To make use of the cause of death statistics for Burden of Disease calculations we redistribute those IDD to valid causes of death. Methods The process of proportio...